Let’s say today is the first day of your new diet.


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Your expectations are high and so is your motivation.
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You are fired up and ready to charge into this!
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Day 1 is a breeze.
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You wake up before the sun to crack eggs, pack lunch, and tie your laces before jogging a few miles.
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At the end of the day, you think, “Wow, today actually felt pretty easy!”
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As Day 2 comes to a close you realize that today was even better than yesterday.
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At lunch, your friends ordered burgers and fries, but you stuck to leafy greens and protein.
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There are no two ways about it.
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You are on fire!
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Two weeks in and you are still going strong.
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In fact, we could describe things up to this point as, well…perfect!
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But that’s when you hit a snag.
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Your business was going smooth, then you had to fire an employee for not hitting his targets again.
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Now you’re the first to arrive and the last to leave the office.
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Any time you had to focus on your health is gone!
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There’s no time to eat lunch, let alone go to the gym.
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And the thought running through your mind is, “It is impossible to keep this diet going. I’ll start again when I can give it my full attention.”
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When you start a plan to get fit, do you feel like you are either all-in or all-out?
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Do these thoughts ever cross your mind?
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“If I can’t give this 100% of my time and attention, then it’s not going to work.”
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“I am completely overwhelmed, I need to stop until I have more time.”
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“If I can’t be perfect, why bother?”
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That there’s no middle ground?
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If so, you’ve fallen into the trap of all-or-nothing thinking.
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But what if you could change that?
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What would be possible if your health wasn’t dependent on your business, life, or you being perfect?
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All-or-nothing thinking is when you see things in absolutes.
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It’s either black or white, right or wrong, on or off.
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There is no in-between and no shades of gray.
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A client once told me, “I have a work trip coming up, and I always eat terrible away from home. I need to put this program on pause until I get back and can focus.”
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This is a perfect example of thinking in absolutes.
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Notice they said they “always” eat terrible.
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Another client said, “If I can’t devote 100% of my time and attention to getting fit, then I just can’t stick to it.”
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The key is to re-wire your mind from thinking in absolutes to thinking in progression.
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Once you are able to do that, you’ll never fall off again the band wagon of dieting and exercising.
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You lose all the weight you want once and for all, and you keep it off forever.
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Michael Jordan once said “I never lost a basketball game, I only ran out of time”.
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This is a great mindset to adapt here.
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You may not have had a home run this week, and you may not have lost any weight.
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Yet at least you haven’t regained any weight either!
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This means next week you can drop weight again and still progress.
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As you become aware of this, you’ll notice how it’s impossible to fail.
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You may get there a bit later than you expected, but you WILL get there.
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And that’s what it’s all about, isn’t it?

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